This workshop approaches SEM using the Bentler-Weeks model (a general and
simpler alternative to LISREL) and its implementation in EQS 6.1. Topics
include the practical (modeling with Diagrammer or text files) and theoretical
(use of recently published and in press statistics). Topics will be selected
from the following, depending on participant interest and background:

Peter M. Bentler is Professor of Psychology and Statistics at UCLA, where he works on the psychometric and statistical theory in SEM as well as on the etiology and consequences of drug abuse. He has been an elected president of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology, the Psychometric Society, and the Division of Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics of the American Psychological Association. In 1996, he received the Distinguished Scientific
Contributions Award from the latter society.